Youth Extremist Attitudes Driven By Destabilization of Traditional Culture
Abstract
The paper considers a relevant and burning issue of youth extremism. The authors analyze the reasons for radical and extreme attitudes of the youth and state that extremism among youth is caused by destabilization of the traditional culture. The core of the traditional culture is purposefully destabilized by creating some pseudo-scientific problems and assigning heroic features to minor people in history. Many young people are conscious in their choice of traditionalism with different archaic violence practices which try to openly challenge the modern civility standardized under liberal capitalism and a consumerist society. Mass culture extensively contributes into the development and expansion of the youth extremism patterns. The paper underlines that overall social psychological attitude and confidence of young people in their future, a developed self-consciousness and tradition succession play a huge role in combatting extremism among the youth. Traditional behavioral aspects could oppose extremist manifestations which are rejected at a deep ethnical level of culture, because they contradict its nature and search for development in the today’s world.
Keywords: youth; extremism; traditions; destabilization; culture.
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